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Taylor Swift and Nicki Minaj traded words on Twitter after the rapper said she was upset she didn't earn a nomination for video of the year at the MTV Video Music Awards. Minaj tweeted multiple times that she didn't understand why her rump-shaking video for "Anaconda" wasn't up for the top award when MTV announced the nominees Tuesday. She wrote in one tweet: "If your video celebrates women with very slim bodies, you will be nominated for vid of the year." She also tweeted, "When the 'other' girls drop a video that breaks records and impacts culture they get that nomination." Minaj did not mention specific artists in her tweets....

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